Month: April 2016

Here is a quick and dirty way to create a Powershell profile.

First, start the Powershell terminal and type:

An empty profile file appears, and you can type the commands you want to run at start up:

Fortune cookie

If you want to be greeted with a fortune cookie, add the following line:

Thanks to the Google Developers Group Nort Colorado for hosting the api!

Some nice ASCII art

Finally, add a nice ASCII picture to spice up your day. I found one here. Clone the repo and save Get-MOTD.ps1 in your $env:HOMEPATH\Documents\WindowsPowershell\ directory.

Your $profile file will look like this:

And it if you start the Powershell terminal you will be greeted like this:

Tip: don’t do this in ISE. Also, install posh-git and follow the profile adjustments described on their github site.